Supply Chain Management in Latin America: Current research and future directions

HECKMANN, GERARDO OSCAR

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Emerald

Año: 2018

1359-8546

or the last 20 years, Latin American countries have gone from being a low-cost region to significant players in the world economy, with five of its countries ranked among the world´s fiftieth largest by Gross Domestic Product. This paper studies the contribution of Latin American researchers in the field of supply chain management, in order to aid an understanding of the Latin American impact within global supply chains.We present a study which includes a bibliometric analysis of the papers authored by Latin American researchers in the supply chain management field, and which were exclusively published in journals included in the Journal Citation Reports. In addition, we conducted a survey to Latin American researchers and consultants, to gain greater understanding of the main difficulties, which in their opinion, have negatively affected the supply chain management area in Latin America within the last five years, and to identify possible misalignment between Latin American research